Reply #200: My brother's keeper [View All]

[Muddleoftheroad]

In this case, my "brother" was a murdering, raping, looting psychotic. At some point, family loses out.

This was war. Complete and total war for survival. We did not start this horrible war. We did not cause Japan to try to subjugate its neighbors or attack our troops. THEY chose to do so. We stopped them. I might shed tears for the horrors of war, but war, once fought, must be won. And it was, thank God.

Then, we turned around and did something unheard of. We granted them a glorious, honorable, helpful peace. We rebuilt all that their insanity, their barbarism had destroyed.

Suppose we did as you say. How many more American troops would have died blockading Japan? How many more people would have died in China and elsewhere in Asia because Japan DID still had troops other places?

Yes, I have indeed seen many claims that FDR knew something. Usually they are GOP talking points. At best, they have been marginal claims and hypotheses.

There were indeed war crimes trials for the Japanese. They worked. In fact, the whole combination of what Truman did and what Marshall and MacArthur envisioned worked. I am reluctant to try and nitpick because, like a house of cards, change one thing and it all comes tumbling down.

As for Perry, I was not the one to bring him up.

I am all for all of us drawing together in peace. But America needs no forgiveness for what it did to Japan. And Japan still has not owned up to its murderous role in WWII.